The Selkie Selkie’s are a mythical creature from Irish folklore similar to mermaids, they are seals in the water, and on land remove their skin […]
The Stuff of Legends
Category: Trip Report: Ireland
Sligo Scrambling Trip (AKA the Brexit Party)
Last weekend we had a pleasure to join our friends from Belfast Climbing Club on the exploration of some less known scrambles around Sligo. Their […]
The Alternative Burren Way
by Barry Watts Drawing some inspiration from climbing challenges such as No Sleeps till Bakewell and the Dalkey Forty, Conor Warner and I decided to […]
Fair by Name, Daunting by Nature
Trip Report 2019 IMC Fair Head Meet by Michal Samsel For those who don’t know what Fair Head is – Fair Head or Benmore (Irish: […]
Dingle Dangle – a Memorable Kerry Meet
by Andy Minshull There are obvious attractions – and obvious drawbacks – to a Kerry meet. The attractions are Ireland’s most majestic mountains, some extraordinary […]
GORSE OR FURZE?
I read somewhere that these are the only two words in the English dictionary with the exact same meaning, although it should be pointed out […]
Dalkey Climbers’ Marathon or “The Dalkey 40”
https://www.irishmountaineeringclub.org/ “People on the outside who either don’t do our sport, or don’t do it to the same level, look at the things we do […]
Dalkey Climbers' Marathon or "The Dalkey 40"
https://www.irishmountaineeringclub.org/ “People on the outside who either don’t do our sport, or don’t do it to the same level, look at the things we do […]
Galtees Trip, January 2017
Emma Hand, Sé O’Hanlon, Gerry Galligan, Peter Wood and I met up in the Ballyhoura Hostel in Kilfinane on the Friday night. On Saturday morning […]
Moonlight Challenges
Recent interest in the organised Moonlight Challenge and all this talk about a super moon reminded me of a time when we used to hold […]